Telling work

I am 15 weeks and I want to tell work because I am hoping they will go a bit easier on me. I work in finance and it can be quite hectic at the best of times. Has anyone experienced their work being more lenient after telling them? I was advised that I should wait til 20 weeks but the work is starting to pile up.

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I told my manager and HR quite early as they had to complete a risk assessment for my role . I also worked in an office xx

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I work in pest control and my managers have been great, they don’t stress me out and we have meetings at different stages of my pregnancy to see how I’m feeling and what I can or cannot do. I hope it is the same for you.

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Your workplace has to safeguard you whilst at work - I have found since telling work it’s been a really positive experience.

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Yep - as soon as I told them they started to be more lenient with me, I also work in a very pressured job. At the back end of my pregnancy I was having 2hr naps! My boss was absolutely fine he knew I was shattered

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I told my brand new job (was pregnant in the interview) on Sunday and they are fine with ke telling them, I work in retail so she said she’d do my risk assessment at 25 weeks :)

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I told my boss right away. Granted I am a teacher. Not in finance. I was brand new to the job. She understood. She was certainly lenient with me because I didn’t know I was pregnant when I took the job.

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Yep told my boss at 8 weeks as I was strugggggggling, then announced to our head of department at 12 weeks,....Im away ATM but have been told they will do a risk assessment on my return ! X

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I told my work at 8 weeks and i work in finance too..took off so much stress.

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I told my work at about 6 weeks. Its a super small team and hard to keep anything a secret but I haven't had much stress taken off me. Because its a small company there isnt really much wiggle room for lightening work loads and its starting to get a bit stressy and tough for me. I dread each day and prey the stress doesnt cause any harm

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Telling work

I am 15 weeks and I want to tell work because I am hoping they will go a bit easier on me. I work in finance and it can be quite hectic at the best of times. Has anyone experienced their work being more lenient after telling them? I was advised that I should wait til 20 weeks but the work is starting to pile up.

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